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break a bank
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You have broken the bank!
Someone wins a lot of money in a gambling place. Is "You have broken the bank!" also an idiom?
Thank you.
Someone wins a lot of money in a gambling place. Is "You have broken the bank!" also an idiom?
Thank you.
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To win a LOT of money!
The casino or gaming place isn't really out of funds. Someone is using the phrase to note the individual has had a good run of luck and has won a signifcant amount of money.
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Another meaning: Final fortune: Ticket could break the bank
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Looking for Final Four tickets?
Unless you are willing to empty your bank account, you probably will have to find someplace other than the 46,688-seat Edward Jones Dome to watch Michigan State in the Final Four.
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Another meaning: Final fortune: Ticket could break the bank
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Looking for Final Four tickets?
Unless you are willing to empty your bank account, you probably will have to find someplace other than the 46,688-seat Edward Jones Dome to watch Michigan State in the Final Four.
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break the bank
To break the bank has two meanings. The first one in the conext supplied by you means that you have won all the money the dealer has.
The second meaning is an idiom. It means that you have spent all of your own money. It comes from putting all your coins (especially children) in a piggy bank. Once you have saved enough money you physically break the bank to get the money and buy whatever it is you had been saving for.
The second meaning is an idiom. It means that you have spent all of your own money. It comes from putting all your coins (especially children) in a piggy bank. Once you have saved enough money you physically break the bank to get the money and buy whatever it is you had been saving for.
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: In the given context, it could mean this literally, or more metaphorically... Nothing to do with piggy banks here.
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not for grading (idiom websites)
The Idiom Connection
He didn`t break the bank but he did win a lot of money. ... www.idiomconnection.com/bquiz.html
Money Idioms List
Choose the idiom and click on it to go directly to the explanation and example.... break the bank MEANING: win all the money at a casino gambling table ...
www.learn4good.com/languages/evrd_idioms/id-m.php3
Allwords.com Definition of break the bank
Idiom: break the bank. In gambling: to win from eg a casino the sum of money fixed as the limit it is willing to lose in any one day. ...
www.allwords.com/word-break the bank.html
English Idioms A to Z - Word Power
break the bank. - win all the money at a casino gambling table. He didn't really break the bank but he did win a lot of money.
www.wordpower.ws/idioms/b.html
He didn`t break the bank but he did win a lot of money. ... www.idiomconnection.com/bquiz.html
Money Idioms List
Choose the idiom and click on it to go directly to the explanation and example.... break the bank MEANING: win all the money at a casino gambling table ...
www.learn4good.com/languages/evrd_idioms/id-m.php3
Allwords.com Definition of break the bank
Idiom: break the bank. In gambling: to win from eg a casino the sum of money fixed as the limit it is willing to lose in any one day. ...
www.allwords.com/word-break the bank.html
English Idioms A to Z - Word Power
break the bank. - win all the money at a casino gambling table. He didn't really break the bank but he did win a lot of money.
www.wordpower.ws/idioms/b.html
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